You're right, we won't be working on homeworld 2 classic anymore. Why would we? It is a waste of time to do so. Steam workshop is the only way to publish mods for homeworld now, you'll just have to deal with it.

I don't think you understand the situation here. The mod on stream and on moddb are the same build. The mod will no longer be deceleration for homeworld 2 so if you want to play the mod you need to buy the remaster.

Material shaders. If you look at the old images/videos, everything is either shiny or flat. RVMats control the spec/gloss/AO/normal effect on a model. In this case, all RVMats in the mod are complete. Everything reflects light the way it should.

Too much bump from the scratches. The scratches shouldn't be bumped unless they're huge. Remember these are kilometer long ships, and minor surface scratches would appear bumped at the zoom you see the ships at.

I just watched the PAX panel and there is no way that you should have this stigma. There is normal map support, ambient and dynamic lighting (missiles and beams cast light on ships), depth of field, the spec, glow, and now environment and gloss maps are fully supported, the Mothership uses several 4096x4096 textures... this is just amazing. The possibilities are astounding, no longer am I to make a mod that looks terrible. I mean with the assets I have, I won't have a need for LODs because the models in game are high poly, probably more high poly than Homefront. The source textures are scaled up tremendously, a frigate can now have a 2048x2048 texture. Backgrounds are real textures now so HD background support is real. There's just so much there should be no reason why you wouldn't buy it.